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Infectious

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(1):

(a.) Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.

(2):

(a.) Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.

(3):

(a.) Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.

(4):

(a.) Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Infectious'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​i/infectious.html. 1828.
 
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